I've always been fascinated in how technology can make lives better, but at the same time, I'm often frustrated when anything I see suffers from poor design. Just a simple investment in how something will be used, the message it sends, the big picture, can easily save time and money and frustration. At Vocollect, I discovered a passion and talent for product design and abundant usability. The products my team helped to design have exceeded expectations, time and again, and our design team won the annual Honeywell award in 2015 for providing the best-implemented user experience across Honeywell’s entire product line. That was no accident, by applying UX strategies, we created standards and procedures and applied human factors methods to all phases of the product design and testing, and constantly vetted our ideas with multiple customers, internal and external.Prior to Vocollect, I managed a cross-functional team of technical implementers for Indus International, a company that developed nuclear process software. Ask me if I know what fault tolerance is.And given that I was around when dinosaurs roamed the earth, prior to that I was an analyst and programmer for a couple of companies using IBM COBOL, Visual Basic, Perl, Java, HTML Nowadays I use tools like InVision and Validatly, but you never forget your roots.Somewhere in there, I managed to be married to the same terrific and patient woman for 30 years, raising three successful, independent children (still a work in progress but my greatest achievement), travel to 27 countries and 45 states, be a Scout leader for over fifteen years (doing that laughable “it’s only one hour a week”), serve as a first responder EMR, start a profitable HVAC business, serve on the board of Armstrong Habitat for Humanity for 9+ years, and help backstage at Freeport high school.
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